Jimmy Chin: Rules to Live By

Join us for a release event with Academy Award–winning filmmaker and bestselling author Jimmy Chin discussing his new book RULES TO LIVE BY. This event will be hosted on the 6th floor of The Strand Building located at 826 Broadway on 12th Street. Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed copy of Rules to Live By here. ACCESSIBILITY: Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at [email protected] by Sept. 18 to request. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- No one gets through this life alone. What is the life you want to live? What is the price you’re willing to pay for it? Twenty-five years ago, as I headed out on my first expedition, I had a lot of questions. I’ve found a few answers since, but one question remains: In the end, what really matters? A few fundamental truths are worth examining again and again, because we evolve and so do the answers. When I have needed guidance, I’ve gone back to my mentors. The wisest of them never gave me straight answers. They asked me their own questions, and I arrived at things I never could have been told. This book is ten conversations with ten extraordinary people—Lynsey Addario, Annette Bening, Simone Biles, Yvon Chouinard, Alex Honnold, Bill King, Yo-Yo Ma, Ridley Scott, Kelly Slater, and Kris Tompkins—each of whom I believe has earned the exceptional life they chose to live and the understanding that has come with it. None of them gave me rules. They gave me honesty. Good conversations, like good books and good films, make you feel a little less alone. I hope these provide that for you. Maybe you’ll even find a few rules to live by. Much love, Jimmy Jimmy Chin is an Academy Award–winning filmmaker, National Geographic photographer, New York Times bestselling author, and professional climber and skier. He has spent more than twenty-five years on cutting-edge expeditions around the world.